COMMUNITY_SEED_SOIL A Compost Carnival
Sunday 25 May | 10am – 12:30pm | All ages Athboy Community Allotments, Athboy

Take Me to the River 2025: Solstice Arts Centre, Swift Cultural Centre, and Cineál: Research + Design

Free event, booking essential – BOOK HERE

Celebrating Biodiversity Week, explore composting in this hands-on carnival with creatives Mary Hoy, Sophie Rieu and Rachel Dempsey. Pairing with Boyne River Trust and Athboy Allotments, return to the Earth through attunement exercises, foraging, and the creation of compost “cocktails” which will then be used on Athboy Allotment for the improvement and nourishing of the soil. Involving three stages; perception, foraging procession, and compost creation, Ryan Wilson Parr of Boyne Rivers Trust will present their Boyne Floodplain Woodlands Project, exploring the saplings growing on-site, to be planted out later in the year along the Boyne River plains.

Documenting the carnival procession, Cineál will create a handheld sectional map for participants to record the composting process, foraged riparian flora and personal perspectives embodying the carnival characters created. These perspectives will contribute to the ever growing ‘Creative Catchment Map’ to record information, activities and scientific enquiry.